Verse (Click for Chapter) GOD'S WORD® Translation The sleep of working people is sweet, whether they eat a little or a lot. But the full stomachs that rich people have will not allow them to sleep. American Standard Version The sleep of a laboring man is sweet, whether he eat little or much; but the fulness of the rich will not suffer him to sleep. Berean Study Bible The sleep of the worker is sweet, whether he eats little or much, but the abundance of the rich man permits him no sleep. Douay-Rheims Bible Sleep is sweet to a labouring man, whether he eat lttle or much: but the fulness of the rich will not suffer him to sleep. English Revised Version The sleep of a labouring man is sweet, whether he eat little or much: but the fulness of the rich will not suffer him to sleep. King James Bible The sleep of a labouring man is sweet, whether he eat little or much: but the abundance of the rich will not suffer him to sleep. World English Bible The sleep of a laboring man is sweet, whether he eats little or much; but the abundance of the rich will not allow him to sleep. Young's Literal Translation Sweet is the sleep of the labourer whether he eat little or much; and the sufficiency of the wealthy is not suffering him to sleep. Ecclesiastes 5:12 Additional Translations ... Links Ecclesiastes 5:12 NIVEcclesiastes 5:12 NLT Ecclesiastes 5:12 ESV Ecclesiastes 5:12 NASB Ecclesiastes 5:12 NKJV Ecclesiastes 5:12 KJV |